Interpreted language(s) in the base

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Aug 22 15:25:37 UTC 2010


Matthias Andree <mandree at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Looks a bit like a swing.  First we remove Perl from the base system
> (years ago) and move to sed/awk, now we discuss using a scripting
> language in the base system...

Read the discussion from the beginning.  We are discussing introducing a
domain-specific scripting language, not a general-purpose one.

BTW, most of the Perl scripts we had were rewritten in C, not sed / awk.

DES
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